Design News Search Engineer
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Homebuilds
Found some interesting sites of guys building a railgun and some putting together home made jet engines.
Junkyard jetBill's Turbojet
Jason Rollette's Rail Gun
Dan's jet turbine
Mike's home built jet turbine
Nye Themodynamics
Nice hobbies!
Monday, January 26, 2004
Worst cars of all time
I admit it, I drove two of the worst cars of all times, according to Forbes. Okay, at least I didn't buy them, but I did work for a government agency that had me driving both a Ford Pinto (for at least a year after the truth came out about the thing exploding on rear-end collisions!) and the Ford Bronco...It rolled over pretty easy, but I did like the way it handled. There's 14 on the list and the Yugo was by far voted the worse!
But the best car I ever had? The 66 Chevy Impala Super Sport ... even with the rotted floor boards in the back because the windows leaked (and grew a nice crop of mushrooms!)
Future State of Fuel Cells
At least that's what Ohio is trying to become...Gov. Bob Taft has pledged $103 million in state money to develop fuel cells and bring more high-tech jobs to the Buckeye State. At least seven state universities as well as NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are all involved in some form of fuel cell research.
Other states are jumping on the fuel cell bandwagon.
Are fuel cells the future? Here's an interesting article on diesel vs. fuel cells from the pages of Design News magazine.
Want to read what geeks think? Then head on over to Geek.com and read the on-going comments.
